Our objectives are to:
- Conserve and enhance the natural and cultural heritage of the UK’s Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, ensuring they can meet the challenges of the future.
- Support the economic and social wellbeing of local communities in ways which contribute to the conservation and enhancement of natural beauty.
- Promote public understanding and enjoyment of the nature and culture of Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and encourage people to take action for their conservation.
- Value, sustain and promote the benefits that the UK’s Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty provide for society, including clean air and water, food, carbon storage and other services vital to the nation’s health and wellbeing.
Our projects
Start: January 2025
End: June 2026
Rivers Run Through Us is a project to involve local farmers and communities in nature restoration in the River Axe, its tributaries, and surrounding valleys.
Start: September 2022
Making Rivers Better is a free network for river-loving volunteers and citizen scientists, coordinated by Blackdown Hills National Landscape on behalf of East Devon Catchment…
Start: January 2021
The aim of the Triple Axe catchment project is to align existing and define new activity in the Axe catchment required to address key issues…
Start: January 2019
Connecting the Culm is a three year project which aims to make the River Culm and its floodplain more resilient to flood and drought, improve…
Completed
Start: June 2018
End: June 2021
Following a successful partnership bid to Natural England, a new training and collaboration network has been set up for farmers and other land managers within…
Completed
Start: January 2015
End: August 2025
Blackdown Hills Natural Futures project enabled us to find out more about the natural heritage of the Blackdown Hills, to raise awareness of the area’s…
Completed
Start: October 2018
End: October 2018
The Catchment Communities Conference, on Friday 19 October 2018, brought together community representatives, land owners and managers, and practitioners from the East Devon Catchment Partnership…
Completed
Start: December 2018
End: March 2020
Working in partnership with the Environment Agency, Devon County Council's Flood and Coastal Risk Team, East Devon AONB Partnership, Westcountry Rivers Trust and FWAG South…
Completed
Start: January 2018
End: January 2019
The white-clawed crayfish – the UK's only native crayfish – is under threat. The River Culm, in the Blackdown Hills AONB, is one of only two…
Completed
Start: December 2017
End: March 2018
Through the East Devon Catchment Partnership, Blackdown Hills AONB secured £20,000 to provide nature-based solutions across the upper catchment of the River Culm to address…
Completed
Start: April 2019
End: April 2020
The purpose of the Discovering Dunkeswell Abbey project was to raise the profile of Dunkeswell Abbey which has a rich cultural and historic interest. The…
Completed
Start: December 2016
End: August 2017
During the second world war, Dunkeswell Airfield was the only US naval air base on British soil. Our Dunkeswell War Stories project set about telling…
Completed
Start: January 2019
End: March 2021
Blackdown Hills National Landscape was one of 12 National Landscapes (formerly Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty) in England that took part a National Landscape Association…
Completed
Start: April 2018
End: March 2019
This project, funded by Historic England, shines a spotlight on the important field boundaries and linear landscape features of the Blackdown Hills AONB and highlights…
Completed
Start: October 2019
End: October 2024
Blackdown Hills National Landscape secured funding from National Grid’s Landscape Enhancement Initiative to restore and enhance landscape features within the National Grid transmission line corridor…
Completed
Start: September 2014
End: June 2015
For centuries, the sounds, sweat and smoke of iron-working were part of life in the Blackdown Hills. The rich iron-working past of The Blackdown Hills was rooted…
Completed
Start: February 2016
End: August 2020
The Nature and Wellbeing project helped members of the local community make the most of Somerset’s Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) by participating in…
Completed
Start: July 2019
End: July 2024
Blackdown Hills Nature Recovery Plan lays out the priorities and actions needed to recover nature in and beyond the Blackdown Hills National Landscape, to build…
Completed
Start: January 2020
End: October 2023
Somerset Nature Connections is a partnership project between Somerset Wildlife Trust and the three Somerset Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The project aims to help…
Completed
Start: December 2017
End: March 2021
The aim of the Woods for Water project is to stimulate woodland planting and management in appropriate locations to combat flooding and improve water quality.
